[updated:LAST EDITED ON Oct-20-05 AT 05:19 PM (EST)]I always wondered what this meant. This is what I found. Just thought it was interesting (could this be another clue to Sons true age?)

"It was a common practice in 1918," Barry writes, "for people to hang a [ribbon] of crepe on the door to mark a death in the house. There was crepe everywhere." In Philadelphia -- where 254 people died on Oct. 5 and 289 the next day -- a man said that on one street, it "looked like every other house had crepe over the door."